William Lerach
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Attorney Misconduct, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, White-Collar Crime, William Lerach
Is Teaching at Law School a Form of Community Service? Bill Lerach Thinks So
Victims of what anti-law-school bloggers have dubbed “the law school scam” might argue that working for a law school, or at least the kind of law school that saddles students with debt and can’t get them jobs, is closer to a crime than community service. There is certainly an argument that law professors who aren’t […] -
William Lerach
Are You Having a Laugh Lerach?
Infamous plaintiffs lawyer Bill Lerach just got sentenced for his role in the Milberg Weiss kickback scheme. He got the highest sentence possible under the plea agreement, which was also the sentence sought by the government: 24 months imprisonment. For more, see links below. Random resemblance of the day: Bill Lerach and Ricky Gervais’s character-within-a-character […] - Sponsored
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Crime, Death Penalty, Michael Mukasey, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Torture, White-Collar Crime, William Lerach
Morning Docket: 10.30.07
* The war on punitive damages continues. [USA Today via How Appealing] * Suspect from Burning Man burning to burn something else. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Senators want clarification from Mukasey on waterboarding. [Jurist] * Lerach pleads guilty. [Los Angeles Times] * Do we have a de facto moratorium on executions pending this term’s SCOTUS lethal […]
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John Edwards, Money, Politics, White-Collar Crime, William Lerach
Bill Lerach and John Edwards: BFFs?
As we mentioned in passing yesterday, infamous plaintiffs’ lawyer William Learch will be pleading to a federal conspiracy charge, related to his involvement in Milberg Weiss’s secret scheme to make payments to name plaintiffs in class-action cases. Under the deal that was so skillfully cut by Lerach’s lawyer, John Keker of Keker & Van Nest, […] -
Job Searches, Milberg Weiss, Plaintiffs Firms, William Lerach
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Plaintiff-Side Firms
As you know, we’ve been doing a series of fall recruiting open threads on the Vault 100 law firms — which, of course, tend to represent large corporate defendants in litigation matters. But lately plaintiffs’ firms have been on our mind. Like Hewes & Associates, the fictional firm headed by Glenn Close in the new […] -
Deaths, Eliot Spitzer, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Gerald Ford, John Roberts, Money, Monica Lewinsky, Morning Docket, Politics, Sex Scandals, William Lerach
Morning Docket: 01.02.07
* The nation mourns President Gerald R. Ford. Federal government employees and stock exchange workers thank him for a four-day weekend. [Washington Post; Associated Press] * Plaintiffs’ class-action lawyer William Lerach claims that firing him would cause “delay, duplication of effort and extra costs.” So does hiring him. [WSJ Law Blog] * A new year, […]
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Biglaw, Crime, Melvyn Weiss, Milberg Weiss, Money, Plaintiffs Firms, William Lerach
Milberg Weiss Death Watch: More About Steve Schulman's Departure
After we mentioned the departure of indicted partner Steven Schulman from the indicted law firm Milberg Weiss, some of you had funny things to say. See, e.g., this comment. As it turns out, there were reasons unrelated to federal criminal charges for Steve Schulman to leave Milberg. From Legal Pad: Schulman’s deal with the firm […] -
Federal Judges, Judge of the Day, Plaintiffs Firms, William Lerach, You Go Girl
Judge of the Day: Melinda Harmon
People pay attention to a judge’s reversal rate — how often that jurist gets reversed by a higher court. And a high reversal rate is usually regarded as “not a good thing.” But we kinda admire judges who aren’t overly concerned with their reversal rate. We respect judges who are willing to go out on […] - Sponsored
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Anna Nicole Smith, HP, Milberg Weiss, Morning Docket, Supreme Court, War on Terror, William Lerach
Morning Docket: 09.15.06
* Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom ex-Playmate and victorious Supreme Court litigant, supports a formal inquest into the mysterious death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel Wayne Smith. [Associated Press] * SCOTUS groupies, rejoice: Same-day transcripts of Supreme Court oral arguments will be made available, for free, on the Court’s website. [Washington Post; SCOTUSblog] * The […]
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